V. I. Lenin

Memo Combatting Dominant Nation Chauvinism

Written:6 October, 1922First Published:PravdaNo. 21 on January 21, 1937; Published according to the manuscriptSource:Lenin’sCollected Works, 2nd English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965,Volume 33, page 372Translated:David Skvirsky and George HannaTranscription\HTML Markup:David Walters&R. CymbalaCopyleft:V. I. Lenin Internet Archive (www.marx.org) 2002. Permission is granted to copy and/or distribute this document under the terms of theGNU Free Documentation License

I declare war to the death on dominant nation chauvinism. I
    shall eat it with all my healthy teeth as soon as I get rid of this accursed
    bad tooth.

It must beabsolutelyinsisted that the Union Central Executive
      Committee should bepresided overin turn by a:Russian,Ukrainian,Georgian, etc.Absolutely!